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The best era of Magic basketball was represented at Amway Center on Friday night. And Stan Van Gundy didn't even get a plaque or a trophy. The Magic inducted Shaquille O'Neal into the Orlando Magic Hall of Fame while Stan worked the other corner for the Detroit Pistons. Surely, it was pure coincidence that Shaq and Stan — who have a strained history of their own — were in the building. Shaq did a lot for the Magic, of course, but Van Gundy and Dwight Howard did even more for the franchise. Including playoff games, Van Gundy has more wins than any Magic coach. He bailed them out after the Billy Donovan disaster in the spring of 2007 when the Florida Gators...

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The best era of Magic basketball was represented at Amway Center on Friday night.
And Stan Van Gundy didn't even get a plaque or a trophy.
The Magic inducted Shaquille O'Neal into the Orlando Magic Hall of Fame while Stan worked the other corner for the...

James Borrego is not helping his chances to keep the Magic coaching job after the season.
He cost himself dearly -- again.
Under Borrego’s short interim tenure, the Magic have found inexplicable ways to stunningly blow two games that seemed impossible...

As expected, the Magic have fired coach Jacque Vaughn, a setback for the franchise’s rebuilding plan.
The Magic (15-37) replaced Vaughn with lead assistant James Borrego on Thursday.
Whether Borrego can rally the team enough to keep the job is unlikely,...

Just five games. That's probably the difference between Jacque Vaughn keeping his job as Magic coach and being the foreman fired on this construction project.
If Vaughn has just five more wins, bringing his total to 20, I don't think we're having a...

Sure looks strange for the Magic to hold tryouts with the NBA season already in progress.
Jacque Vaughn, though, gives you the feeling he'll play anyone who knows what to do when the other team has the ball. Mainly, not faint.
Lately, Vaughn has tried...

Three years later, the Orlando Magic are still living through their Dwightmare that is quickly developing into an even more sub-STAN-tial PR problem.
Magic fans want to know: Why is their team is playing such a sub-STAN-dard brand of ball while the...

The Orlando Magic have acquired an impressive talent base over the last two and a half years.
The challenge now is deciding whom to keep.
That's the overall take provided by Stan Van Gundy, the Detroit Pistons' coach and president of basketball...

Dewayne Dedmon has plenty to be thankful for when he looks over the last year.
On Jan. 1, 2014, he was a member of the NBA Development League's Santa Cruz Warriors, hoping an NBA team would just give him a chance.
On Thursday, exactly one year later,...

You figured that Stan Van Gundy might eventually miss the good old days in Orlando in his new dual role as coach and president of the woeful Detroit Pistons.
You just didn't think it would be this soon — with the early returns so horrendous.
The Pistons...

We asked members of the Orlando Sentinel sports staff to offer their predictions for the Magic's 2014-15 season:
George Diaz | Columnist
The Magic rebuilding plan is a slow grind. Second-year guard Victor Oladipo is their star player, but he needs a...

Here are bios on the players and coach for this season's Orlando Magic:
Dewayne Dedmon
Center, No. 3
Height/Weight: 7-0/245. Age: 25.
Experience: Dedmon took up basketball as a high-school senior. He played in the D-League and for two NBA teams last...

Victor Oladipo underwent surgery Saturday to correct a facial fracture, and the procedure was "successful" and went "as expected," a team official said.
The Orlando Magic guard suffered the fracture in practice Thursday when he...

Aaron Gordon stood alone in the right corner, slightly bent at the knees and waist in case a teammate hurled the ball to him. Tobias Harris drove along the right edge of the lane, collided with a Minnesota Timberwolves player and threw the basketball to...

TORONTO — Victor Oladipo's protective mask is transparent, but it still requires some getting used to.
Oladipo, who suffered a facial fracture to multiple bones on Oct. 23, recently started practicing again with the Orlando Magic. Oladipo worked out...

The sound of a familiar, raspy voice echoed inside Amway Center on Thursday.
For almost three and a half hours, Stan Van Gundy put his new team, the Detroit Pistons, through drills. He hadn't worked on the arena's main court since May 5, 2012, when his...

The Orlando Magic's offseason will end Monday, when players and coaches convene at Amway Center for their annual media day. On Tuesday, the Magic will hold their first official practice of the 2014-15 season.
The regular-season opener looms on Oct....

Only a few days remain in the Orlando Magic’s offseason. Media day looms on Monday. And the team will hold its first practice a week from today.
But before I start looking ahead to the team’s upcoming season, perhaps it’d be best to review the offseason....

In what might have been Jameer Nelson's final game as a member of the Orlando Magic — the 2013-14 season finale Wednesday night against the Indiana Pacers — the best look fans inside Amway Center had of the veteran point guard occurred before tipoff.
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Nik Vucevic sat out his second game in a row Saturday night as his Orlando Magic hosted the Minnesota Timberwolves at Amway Center.
Vucevic now has missed 20 of the Magic's 77 games this season due to two separate left-ankle sprains, a concussion and —...

The Orlando Magic now have an outpost in northwestern Pennsylvania.
After months of talks, Magic officials have finalized a one-to-one affiliation agreement with the NBA Development League’s Erie BayHawks. The agreement will begin with the 2014-15 season...